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2. Mater, ora filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium.

1

“Fayre maydyn, who is this barn,
That þou beriste in thyn arme?”
“Sir, it is a kyngis son,
That in hevyn a-bove doth wonne.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].

2

“Man to fader he hath non,
But hym self, God alone,
Of a maydyn he wold be borne
To save mankynd þat was forlorn.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].

3

“Thre kyngis browght hym presens,
Gold, myrre & frankynsens,
To my son full of myght,
Kynge of kyngis & lorde of myght.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].

4

“Fayre maydyn, pray for vs
Vnto thy son, swet Jhesus,
Þat he will send vs of his grace
In hevyn on high to haue a place.”
Mater, ora filium, [vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].